Au contraire. Your vote implies your consent to their authority. Refusal to vote means refusal to consent. The government will assert its authority regardless, but not voting is a perfectly legitimate form of resistance.
Wrong. If someone needed a certain percentage of the total potential vote to get into office or pass a bill, this would be true. Not voting would in effect be saying no. However, since the simple majority carries the vote, not voting is implicitly acquiescing to the desire of the majority that bothers to vote.
It is not a form of resistance, is simply allowing others to decide for you.
I guess by your reckoning it would be like contracting "as if I like Hitler"
Yes, using strict grammatical logic, it is contradictory. You get a cookie and a gold star for spotting something illogical in the English language.
While isn't literally what the speaker is intending, everybody in the western world understands the intent. The English language isn't a static construct, and it's richness is a result of it's tendency to beg borrow or steal everything under the sun, and change it around at the speaker's whim. Yeah, it mangles the king's English, but who really cares?
I suspect that Nadaka is confusing the insanity of tea party leadership with that of their supporters. To hear the teeth gnashing lunacy that some of the movement's more vocal leaders espouse, one might jump to the conclusion that their supporters are also similarly unbalanced, which of course, is as unfair as stereotypes based of race, gender, or religion.
Do these people here on Slashdot realize that by blaming the GOP, they sound just like the idiots that blame violent video games for violence?
Well spoken. However, I am not sure that it is the same thing to compare populist propaganda designed to incite hate and fear with simulations of violence. The former is certainly trying to influence and alter behavior, while the latter is just trying to provide escapist entertainment.
While I would not be surprised to find out that a unstable individual was incited to violence by extremist propaganda, I think the prudent thing to do would be simply wait and let the investigation proceed and see if the source of this insanity can be uncovered before we start flinging blame about.
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hmmm, more to the point, if they have an alarm, and the proper authorities aren't involved because of management decisions, that opens up the company for huge liability suits if there are any injuries or dumps/spills/venting/etc. I find this hard to believe that the legal department would allow this...
That's truly disappointing... it could have been interesting to watch.
It was a short taping. At the start of the show, when the host was introducing everyone, the techs hooked up a pair of speakers so the computer could vocalize its responses. The first thing the computer asked the host was, 'Do you want to play a game?', and then the pulled the plug on the computer.
and criminals decide whether or not the cost (multiplied by the percent chance of getting prosecuted) is worth it.
Oh, if only criminals were that rational about their activities...
I am sorry to hear about your brother's experiences. It's really too bad that he wasn't able to get better help sooner. I hope he is able to get his life straightened out. It sounds like he is exactly the kind of person that we have way too many of in our prisons, people that just need a little help and guidance to get their life on track.
If they have a high chance of committing another crime, enough so this device is warranted, why would you not keep them in prison to protect people?
because that is not what prison is for. The legal system is there to punish people for things that they have done, not a place to put people who might do something.
If you are going to use prison to keep 'dangerous' sex offenders off the street, I want at-risk children proactively locked up for life, because they are statistically most likely to become violent criminals. Also, get more illiterate, minorities, and mentally disabled in there too, because they are more likely to cause problems for society.
If someone is a repeat sex offender, they need medical treatment, not prison. But, it seems because the are the unholy scum of the earth in the eyes of society, that proper (and costly) programs to treat them will not be funded. The real problem is the simplistic 'just throw em in prison' attitudes like you expressed.
Hmmm... I'd like to see how you produce some very elegantly designed data structures in classic BASIC:-)
Its simple, you jusy write a BASIC program that starts up a C++ IDE.
Joking aside, proper use of GOSUBs could produce a functional programming language like structure. If you pass a few addresses (PEEK and POKE if I recall), I think you could get some ad-hoc simple object-like behavior. It would probably look as convoluted as COBAL, but it could be done. But, yeah BASIC was shit.
More to the point, Assange isn't by any definition an 'enemy combatant'. So despite the fact that 1) He didn't steal any classified information, 2) the US hasn't even tried to file charges or put out a warrant, 3) he isn't an 'enemy combatant', 4) Obama is trying to close Gitmo in any event, it is quite unlikely he will ever see the inside of a US prison.
well lets be fair: C++ is a flexible and powerful, it was designed to be. If you have a developer that isn't very good, they will produce code that is a unorganized mess. In the hands of a skilled dev, there is nothing wrong with C++. They can produce some very elegantly designed data structures. But this is true of any language.
You are in essence condemning fire because it can cause burns.
if you look at the leisure activities of the settlers of the American west two hundred years ago, it seems to me that they seemed to be focused on enjoyable, yet practical pastimes. Video games are enjoyable, but not practical.
yep, a whole bunch. But while generally look better, it depends on the quality of the disk encoding. A badly encoded blu-ray can look worse than a well encoded dvd. And the SW dvds are well encoded.
These days each version of directx specifies a set of required features. A "DirectX 11 card" means a card that implements all the features required by DirectX 11. In this context it's perfectly reasonble to ask whether those features will be exposed to other operating systems.
this is a kind of a interesting line of thought to follow. One would suppose that the DX11 chip will be proprietary hardware acceleration that will integrate with the API. Now, because this is being baked into chips by Intel, they will have to provide documentation for anyone who wants to write drivers for this. If they don't provide documentation and/or to anybody but MS, I would think that they will probably run afoul of monopoly or racketeering laws. IANAL, but I don't think you can get away with that that sort of thing. In any event, the hardware can/will be reverse engineered and direct x will become a multi-platform feature. I don't really see this as a band thing, because while OGL is pretty awesome, a little competition is healthy for everybody. Here is hoping that this 'opens up' DX a little more and spurs more innovation all around.
You need to understand that the latency in Internet connectivity would make playing real-time online games almost impossible.
I am pretty sure that living on a new mars colony in the first 40 years or so of its inception will pretty much preclude playing video games. While there would be down time, I suspect that leisure activities would be focused on more pragmatic things, like reading, writing, coding, sewing, cooking, etc. If you could waste a few hours on a video game or do something that would add to your chance of survival for the next few months, most will choose the latter.
... Why do SW fans seek out crap like the 1977 special, and yet also howl in agony when they have to watch Jar Jar for 5 minutes? I mean, have you really watched the SW special? It is PAINFUL. Jar Jar is like 3% of episode 1.
If I had a gun to my head and was forced to watch one or the other, I would pick episode 1...no wait, I would just take the bullet.
paid again for the DVD, and since the unmolested versions of EPsIV-VI aren't in high definition anyway, it doesn't make sense to replace the DVDs.
here is another reason not to upgrade: I have a HD projector and a huge screen. The SW films on DVD look very good on a large screen. The encoding on the regular DVD versions of the films seems to be pretty good, so unless you are some sore of videophile, you will probably be happy with the results.
Personally, I'd never want one entity to have the keys to the kingdom. Not MS with Passport/.NET, not FB, not OpenID, nobody. I'd rather use passwords that can be memorized, a password list stored on my smartphone, or passwords stored in Firefox.
In the first sentience, you suggest that you don't want any one entity storing all your passwords. How is trusting Firefox or your smartphone service provider not entrusting all your passwords to a single entity?
Newsflash: The Internet is a series of (mostly) privately-owned and privately-operated tubes.
...that run over public land. Sounds like a utility to me. They better get use to some regulations and rules governing how they operate if they want to run their damn cables all over our commons.
They can't even handle their own server farm? What does that say about technical competence of those employed by the government?
Nothing, really, I believe that the reason that the government is farming out hosting duties is to consolidate the thousands of little servers that are hosted and maintained by separate agencies and departments together. It is just a change to save the cost of hosting a distributed mass of servers.
Even if most people were lazy (and they are), the government is still mostly at fault for its own corrupt actions.
Are they? I think that is a lazy misconception that hides the truth. Your thesis is that people are too lazy to be bothered with watching the working of their own government.
Do you really think that most people have the time to follow in detail every piece of legislation that is run through local, state, and federal government agencies? Keep in mind that to do this, you need to watch the activities of the house, senate, and Executive branches, and monitor the rulings of the Judiciary at all levels? The bills that are going through these legislative bodies are so long that the professional full time elected representatives that vote on them don't have time to fully read and comprehend them, and they only have to worry about the laws and bills that pas through their jurisdiction.
On top of that, the average guy still has to work a job/go to school/raise a family. I am interested in all the shenanigans happening on public office, and I freely admit to having only a cursory knowledge of things, even when I actively seek that information out.
The real problem isn't that people are lazy or ignorant, but that there is so much happening that you cannot possibly follow it all. Calling people lazy, is well, lazy, and fails to address the real problem: The government needs to be much more open for a non-professional (politician or lobbyist) to participate.
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Au contraire. Your vote implies your consent to their authority. Refusal to vote means refusal to consent. The government will assert its authority regardless, but not voting is a perfectly legitimate form of resistance.
Wrong. If someone needed a certain percentage of the total potential vote to get into office or pass a bill, this would be true. Not voting would in effect be saying no. However, since the simple majority carries the vote, not voting is implicitly acquiescing to the desire of the majority that bothers to vote.
It is not a form of resistance, is simply allowing others to decide for you.
it's part of stupid-English, the anti-language spoken by stupid people. It's actually very nice of them to self-identify like that.
Spend less time whining about the font that a book is written in, and more time paying attention to the content.
I guess by your reckoning it would be like contracting "as if I like Hitler"
Yes, using strict grammatical logic, it is contradictory. You get a cookie and a gold star for spotting something illogical in the English language.
While isn't literally what the speaker is intending, everybody in the western world understands the intent. The English language isn't a static construct, and it's richness is a result of it's tendency to beg borrow or steal everything under the sun, and change it around at the speaker's whim. Yeah, it mangles the king's English, but who really cares?
I suspect that Nadaka is confusing the insanity of tea party leadership with that of their supporters. To hear the teeth gnashing lunacy that some of the movement's more vocal leaders espouse, one might jump to the conclusion that their supporters are also similarly unbalanced, which of course, is as unfair as stereotypes based of race, gender, or religion.
Do these people here on Slashdot realize that by blaming the GOP, they sound just like the idiots that blame violent video games for violence?
Well spoken. However, I am not sure that it is the same thing to compare populist propaganda designed to incite hate and fear with simulations of violence. The former is certainly trying to influence and alter behavior, while the latter is just trying to provide escapist entertainment.
While I would not be surprised to find out that a unstable individual was incited to violence by extremist propaganda, I think the prudent thing to do would be simply wait and let the investigation proceed and see if the source of this insanity can be uncovered before we start flinging blame about. I
its only cheating if the official Jepoardy rules dictate that hearing impaired contestants must remove hearing aids.
hmmm, more to the point, if they have an alarm, and the proper authorities aren't involved because of management decisions, that opens up the company for huge liability suits if there are any injuries or dumps/spills/venting/etc. I find this hard to believe that the legal department would allow this...
That's truly disappointing... it could have been interesting to watch.
It was a short taping. At the start of the show, when the host was introducing everyone, the techs hooked up a pair of speakers so the computer could vocalize its responses. The first thing the computer asked the host was, 'Do you want to play a game?', and then the pulled the plug on the computer.
and criminals decide whether or not the cost (multiplied by the percent chance of getting prosecuted) is worth it.
Oh, if only criminals were that rational about their activities...
I am sorry to hear about your brother's experiences. It's really too bad that he wasn't able to get better help sooner. I hope he is able to get his life straightened out. It sounds like he is exactly the kind of person that we have way too many of in our prisons, people that just need a little help and guidance to get their life on track.
If they have a high chance of committing another crime, enough so this device is warranted, why would you not keep them in prison to protect people?
because that is not what prison is for. The legal system is there to punish people for things that they have done, not a place to put people who might do something.
If you are going to use prison to keep 'dangerous' sex offenders off the street, I want at-risk children proactively locked up for life, because they are statistically most likely to become violent criminals. Also, get more illiterate, minorities, and mentally disabled in there too, because they are more likely to cause problems for society.
If someone is a repeat sex offender, they need medical treatment, not prison. But, it seems because the are the unholy scum of the earth in the eyes of society, that proper (and costly) programs to treat them will not be funded. The real problem is the simplistic 'just throw em in prison' attitudes like you expressed.
Hmmm ... I'd like to see how you produce some very elegantly designed data structures in classic BASIC :-)
Its simple, you jusy write a BASIC program that starts up a C++ IDE.
Joking aside, proper use of GOSUBs could produce a functional programming language like structure. If you pass a few addresses (PEEK and POKE if I recall), I think you could get some ad-hoc simple object-like behavior. It would probably look as convoluted as COBAL, but it could be done. But, yeah BASIC was shit.
For the same price, you could probably pick up a couple of groupies and an eightball.
If you are a real rockstar, the groupies and the eightball are free...
Have you seen or played pro mode for guitar or keyboard? The instrument is not dumbed down to 5 inputs.
Have you ever tried to play a metallica solo on a real guitar? It may as well be...
More to the point, Assange isn't by any definition an 'enemy combatant'. So despite the fact that 1) He didn't steal any classified information, 2) the US hasn't even tried to file charges or put out a warrant, 3) he isn't an 'enemy combatant', 4) Obama is trying to close Gitmo in any event, it is quite unlikely he will ever see the inside of a US prison.
well lets be fair: C++ is a flexible and powerful, it was designed to be. If you have a developer that isn't very good, they will produce code that is a unorganized mess. In the hands of a skilled dev, there is nothing wrong with C++. They can produce some very elegantly designed data structures. But this is true of any language.
You are in essence condemning fire because it can cause burns.
if you look at the leisure activities of the settlers of the American west two hundred years ago, it seems to me that they seemed to be focused on enjoyable, yet practical pastimes. Video games are enjoyable, but not practical.
yep, a whole bunch. But while generally look better, it depends on the quality of the disk encoding. A badly encoded blu-ray can look worse than a well encoded dvd. And the SW dvds are well encoded.
These days each version of directx specifies a set of required features. A "DirectX 11 card" means a card that implements all the features required by DirectX 11. In this context it's perfectly reasonble to ask whether those features will be exposed to other operating systems.
this is a kind of a interesting line of thought to follow. One would suppose that the DX11 chip will be proprietary hardware acceleration that will integrate with the API. Now, because this is being baked into chips by Intel, they will have to provide documentation for anyone who wants to write drivers for this. If they don't provide documentation and/or to anybody but MS, I would think that they will probably run afoul of monopoly or racketeering laws. IANAL, but I don't think you can get away with that that sort of thing. In any event, the hardware can/will be reverse engineered and direct x will become a multi-platform feature. I don't really see this as a band thing, because while OGL is pretty awesome, a little competition is healthy for everybody. Here is hoping that this 'opens up' DX a little more and spurs more innovation all around.
You need to understand that the latency in Internet connectivity would make playing real-time online games almost impossible.
I am pretty sure that living on a new mars colony in the first 40 years or so of its inception will pretty much preclude playing video games. While there would be down time, I suspect that leisure activities would be focused on more pragmatic things, like reading, writing, coding, sewing, cooking, etc. If you could waste a few hours on a video game or do something that would add to your chance of survival for the next few months, most will choose the latter.
... Why do SW fans seek out crap like the 1977 special, and yet also howl in agony when they have to watch Jar Jar for 5 minutes? I mean, have you really watched the SW special? It is PAINFUL. Jar Jar is like 3% of episode 1.
If I had a gun to my head and was forced to watch one or the other, I would pick episode 1...no wait, I would just take the bullet.
paid again for the DVD, and since the unmolested versions of EPsIV-VI aren't in high definition anyway, it doesn't make sense to replace the DVDs.
here is another reason not to upgrade: I have a HD projector and a huge screen. The SW films on DVD look very good on a large screen. The encoding on the regular DVD versions of the films seems to be pretty good, so unless you are some sore of videophile, you will probably be happy with the results.
Personally, I'd never want one entity to have the keys to the kingdom. Not MS with Passport/.NET, not FB, not OpenID, nobody. I'd rather use passwords that can be memorized, a password list stored on my smartphone, or passwords stored in Firefox.
In the first sentience, you suggest that you don't want any one entity storing all your passwords. How is trusting Firefox or your smartphone service provider not entrusting all your passwords to a single entity?
Newsflash: The Internet is a series of (mostly) privately-owned and privately-operated tubes.
...that run over public land. Sounds like a utility to me. They better get use to some regulations and rules governing how they operate if they want to run their damn cables all over our commons.
They can't even handle their own server farm? What does that say about technical competence of those employed by the government?
Nothing, really, I believe that the reason that the government is farming out hosting duties is to consolidate the thousands of little servers that are hosted and maintained by separate agencies and departments together. It is just a change to save the cost of hosting a distributed mass of servers.
Even if most people were lazy (and they are), the government is still mostly at fault for its own corrupt actions.
Are they? I think that is a lazy misconception that hides the truth. Your thesis is that people are too lazy to be bothered with watching the working of their own government.
Do you really think that most people have the time to follow in detail every piece of legislation that is run through local, state, and federal government agencies? Keep in mind that to do this, you need to watch the activities of the house, senate, and Executive branches, and monitor the rulings of the Judiciary at all levels? The bills that are going through these legislative bodies are so long that the professional full time elected representatives that vote on them don't have time to fully read and comprehend them, and they only have to worry about the laws and bills that pas through their jurisdiction.
On top of that, the average guy still has to work a job/go to school/raise a family. I am interested in all the shenanigans happening on public office, and I freely admit to having only a cursory knowledge of things, even when I actively seek that information out.
The real problem isn't that people are lazy or ignorant, but that there is so much happening that you cannot possibly follow it all. Calling people lazy, is well, lazy, and fails to address the real problem: The government needs to be much more open for a non-professional (politician or lobbyist) to participate.